Now Lily was completely baffled. "What on earth did he want to tell me?" she pondered as she finished brushing her teeth. It was 8 o'clock and Lily was in her night gown, there was always next year to go to the Ball.

Meanwhile in the Great Hall, James sat unhappily along the wall with Sirius and Remus, as Emily sat on the other side of James trying to make him laugh. It was working, so she gave up frustrated that he was being a rather mean person, and resorted to telling him that he at least was the most handsome guy she had ever laid eyes upon.

Nothing. Not a single movement came from James. He got up right as the song ended walked briskly as if he was going to get something drink but instead made for the door. Emily was confused, but she didn't press the matter.

"Sirius, what's gotten into him?" she asked. Sirius however ignored her and remained sitting contently thinking of whatever it was he thought.

"SIRIUS! I'm talking to you!" she harped.

"What? What??" he replied thoroughly annoyed.

" I was asking you what was wrong with James, I'm worried about him, he hasn't been acting right"

"Oh would you relax, James can handle himself, you think too much" snapped Sirius.

"Emily, it's okay, Sirius just means that James'll come around by morning, he's just in a bit of a pickle at the moment that's all." added Remus.

"What does HE have to be in a pickle about?" she demanded?

" Sirius, you're medicine come on let's go?" said Remus quickly avoiding Emily's death gaze and grabbing Sirius who was confused but caught on quickly.

"Right, bloody thing that's twice I would have forgotten. We'll be back Emily" Sirius said as he and Remus walked out the doors and toward an empty cupboard.

"Remus, what the bloody hell?"

"I know I forgot, I didn't think before I spoke."

"You're bloody right you forgot. I wonder what James'll do when Emily asks him speaking of which where did he run off to?"

"To see Lily, I suppose" said Remus.

Back in the Common Room.

James sat down in front of the fire. Safe for now. Emily wont bother me right now, she knows better. The clocked tolled 9 times. Once for every letter in her name. L-I-L-Y E-V-A-N-S.

"alright, now what do I do? I got myself into this bloody hell of a mess. I need to get out, think James think. No good. I've been dating Emily for 3 years. I don't regret those year however I feel I need change. Yes that's it I'll tell her, that I need change, Emily that is, well Lily too, but I don't know how she would take that. Oh stop it James you're confusing yourself. I like this Evans girl. Yes she did give me a WEEKS worth of detentions but I was deserving of said punishment. James you are going to walk up to her room and knock it right now."

James took a deep breath the worst thing that could happen would be her saying she didn't want to talk, he convinced himself.

Lily sat in her room really confused. She tried concentrating on her work but it wasn't doing her any good. James stood outside her door contemplating whether or not to knock. He had a bouquet of Sunflowers, Lilies, and Orchids. Just then Remus came running up the stairs and he conveniently tripped right into Lily's door. Lily jumped up knocking over her ink and quill.

"Oh bloody hell, First years running around, I don't want to give detentions tonight" she said as she was cleaning up the mess. James and Remus had slid into the corner doorway waiting to see if she opened the door.

"Remus" James hissed. "you great prat she could have seen me? Worse yet, she would have seen these!"

"Never mind that, I accidently told Emily that you were in a bit of a pickle"

"so..?"

"She wants to know why and I think she has an idea"

"Well, stifle that idea because there isn't any reason for her to think something is up"

"Well you did leave the Great Hall without telling anyone why James"

"I don't feel I need to tell everyone what I'm doing"

"James, just be careful, you're impulses are going to really get you up a creek one day"

"Oh hush, you sound like my mother now" said James irritated with his decision to come see Lily maybe it was a bad idea.

"Remus, I'm going to go to the Great Hall, I don't know what I was thinking just now, I'm going to the WC I'll meet you there okay?"

"alright" Remus said watching James walk into the WC, then turning around himself to head to the Great Hall, only to run into Lily with her wand pointed.

"Lily, hello, how are you?" he said rather nervously.

"What are you doing on the girls floor?" he asked, with eyes narrowed.

"I, thought I saw Emily up here" he lied.

"Emily is in Hufflepuff why would she be in the GRYFFINDOR common room?" she asked suspiciously

"I thought the same exact thing, and it ended up being Landra"

"She's at the Ball"

"She was obviously not because I know I saw her" he said slowly walking down the stairs.

"Anyways you should get to where you belong, on the BOYS floor. Thank you very much"

Remus turned around and immediately bolted for the Great Hall.

"Boys are so clueless, I know exactly what's going on, he was talking to James, I know he was"

James stood behind the door listening. Lily stood on the other side wondering. They both reached for the door knob...

Lily pulled as James pushed causing him to run into her face first.

"Oh, James? I, I'm sorry" she said quickly reaching to close the door. James grabbed the flowers, opened the door, thrust the flowers into Lily's hands and walked down the stairs.

"Where are you going?"

"to detention as you've so well put me!" he snapped slamming the Fat Lady shut.

Lily felt her stomach turn to knots.

"I knew I shouldn't have given him so many detentions, dratted me"

Lily quickly pulled on her robe and slippers and chased down the corridor after him.

"James! James! Wait, I give you permission to skip detention."

"what? Why? You don't even like me, what's come over you?'

"James, it's not that, I just regret giving you anything, I wanted to introduce myself, I thought maybe if I did something different to get your attention that you would know I existed"

"I knew you existed already, you made a complete fool out of yourself by assigning me detention like that."

"Well, I've surmised as much. Those are nice flowers, were the supposed to be Emily?"

This caught James off guard.

"no, they weren't, I felt bad about what Emily did, cutting your hair off and all."

"Hair always grows back but thank you James" She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and walked back into her dorm room.

Lily sat down to work on her essay from 'Grandfather Snape' as many had dubbed him. He was well liked by all the students and professors, and was rather ashamed of his slimeball grandson that attended Hogwarts for reasons unknown of course.

AUTHOR"S NOTE

Thank you for catching me, I completely forgot that Snape wasn't the potions professor yet. hehe. so I fixed it!